Teaching and Learning Briefing 22/4/16

Stretch and Challenge ideas from Monday 8th February

Alby the Alien

Alby has never heard of this topic before and doesn’t speak much english. Explain today’s

lesson to him in a way that is easy to understand

Tweety Pie

Sum up today’s lesson in lesson than 140 characters

Forever Friends

Create a facebook profile for one of the items covered in today’s lesson.

Mind Palace

Create a mind map for today’s topic and place key information in certain rooms.

The Chain

Make as many links as you can between today’s lesson and previous lesson. Bonus:

What could today’s lesson lead onto?

Comic Book Hero

Create a comic strip for today’s lesson. Include a main character and all the key

information

Challenge Challenge

Challenge Challenge

Challenge Challenge

Digestion

Describe 6 ways the digestive system is adapted for food absorption

Metals

Explain why despite being a very good conductor, gold and silver are not used to

make wires

Digestion

Explain why the optimum conditions for enzymes are not the same for all living

organisms

Metals

Use the reactivity series to explain why we don’t use magnesium as kitchen foil

Respiration

Explain why it is important to prevent air from entering an experiment if you are

investigating anaerobic respiration

Reproduction

Explain the advantages to agriculture of asexual reproduction over sexual

reproduction

Essential you must know/be able to say/do this. (E/D/maybe C)

Key points to develop your answers and demonstrate the assessed skills. (C/B)

Top level stuff! Will help you to compete with other candidates and gain top marks

Dilemma-How does Henry ensure he has a male heir for the throne

of England?

THINK

PERSONALCOMMUNITY

OTHERS

What does Henry do?

• He needs a male heir• Catherine, may or may not be

able to have any more children• The only person who can

grant him a divorce is the Pope- but the Pope does not want to upset the very powerful King of Spain-Charles V who is Catherine’s uncle• Anne Boleyn is nagging him

for a divorce!

Think…• Think of as many

solutions as possible to Henry’s problems• Can any of your ideas

be linked?• Which are the two/

three most practical ideas?

What does Henry do?

• He needs a male heir• Catherine, may or may not be

able to have any more children• The only person who can

grant him a divorce is the Pope- but the Pope does not want to upset the very powerful King of Spain-Charles V who is Catherine’s uncle• Anne Boleyn is nagging him

for a divorce!

Make it personal…• How do you personally

feel about this problem? • What do you think

about Henry’s attitude towards a male heir?• How do you think you’d

have felt if you were Catherine of Aragon?

What does Henry do?

• He needs a male heir• Catherine, may or may not be

able to have any more children• The only person who can

grant him a divorce is the Pope- but the Pope does not want to upset the very powerful King of Spain-Charles V who is Catherine’s uncle• Anne Boleyn is nagging him

for a divorce!

Who will this impact on?• List all the people who

would have been personally affected by Henry’s problem?• Who would have been

affected the most by this problem?

What does Henry do?

• He needs a male heir• Catherine, may or may not be

able to have any more children• The only person who can

grant him a divorce is the Pope- but the Pope does not want to upset the very powerful King of Spain-Charles V who is Catherine’s uncle• Anne Boleyn is nagging him

for a divorce!

How will the community/country be affected?• How would the

country as a whole be affected by this dilemma?

What does Henry do?

• He needs a male heir• Catherine, may or may not be

able to have any more children• The only person who can

grant him a divorce is the Pope- but the Pope does not want to upset the very powerful King of Spain-Charles V who is Catherine’s uncle• Anne Boleyn is nagging him

for a divorce!

What is your solution to this problem??

Our solution to the problem is…

Henry’s solution

• Henry decided to grant himself his own divorce by making himself the head of the English church• This meant that he could marry Anne Boleyn

This was called the Break with Rome and for the first time England became a Protestant country